Motivational Quotes

Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

10.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

11.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

14.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

15.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

18.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

20.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

21.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

24.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

26.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

28.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

29.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

31.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

32.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

34.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

35.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

36.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

37.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

38.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

39.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

40.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

43.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

45.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

49.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

50.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.